Publisher’s Note: Every year’s FiRe is different, and each, for being more ambitious, becomes more difficult to capture for this follow-on issue. We are again using as many live links, videos, radio chats, photos, and other media materials as we can to make this a near real-time experience for members who were not able to attend. An added challenge for this year: the many new announcements of technologies, products, and projects that had their first appearance, or even their creation, onstage at FiRe 2015.

In at least one case, a new company was born from our work onstage; and rumor has it that another is about to be formed. It seems that FiRe has become perhaps the most dynamic “conference” in the technology world. At a time when the rest of the world continues to play the Rolodex game, we are launched on a path of discovery and creation that makes FiRe an Idea Incubator, a Company Creator, an intellectual partner with universities and institutes, and – still – a roaring good time, as you will see below. – mra.